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Kirsty Gunn Talks About the Essay

Award-winning novelist and one of the judges of the 2017 Notting Hill Edition's Essay Prize, Kirsty Gunn, talks about the essay.

ESSAY / A loose sally of the mind. An irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition. – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

NHE offers a home for the essay, rooting out the most original essays both by classic essayists and by contemporary writers stretching and playing with its form.

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